How to Use criminalize in a Sentence

criminalize

verb

• Even when states don’t have such laws, prosecutors have used charges of murder to criminalize pregnant drug users.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 5 May 2022
• Japan is set to criminalize the recreational use of cannabis while legalizing medical use.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• At home, Putin has moved to crush dissent and criminalize antiwar activity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• And at least 38 states have laws that criminalize pregnant people for everything from not wearing a seatbelt to falling down stairs, the report states.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 7 May 2022
• At the time there was no Indiana state or federal law to criminalize Cline's actions, and his victims struggled to get justice.
  — Ali Pantony, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2022
• Arizona has a trigger law that would immediately criminalize abortions.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 5 May 2022
• And to Stein, these cases illustrate a broader pattern: child welfare agencies’ tendency to criminalize poverty.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
• The march had been planned in response to a law that will criminalize some drag performances.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• And then the other two states there is either a ban or attempts to criminalize it.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Instead Hong Kong has criminalized Mr. Lai’s calls to uphold freedom and the rule of law.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
• His first order of business was to introduce a state bill to criminalize the type of scam that led to his son’s death.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2023
• There is nothing in the text of the resolution that mentions banning or criminalizing the use or singing of the phrase.
  — Isabel C. Morales, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2023
• The law was also amended to criminalize acts such as stalking and voyeurism and allow for suspects to be tried as adults at age 16.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• This legislative package will also criminalize both the act of making a threat of mass harm and adding to a threat with overt acts to further it.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 6 June 2022
• That all recently came to a screeching halt when the city criminalized the substance.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
• Dissent has been criminalized as extremist and can lead to sentences of life in prison.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• They may be criminalized for sleeping on the street and have a record that prevents them from accessing housing again.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• The state is currently engaged in a year-long battle over the precedent of an 1849 law that criminalizes the death of an unborn child at the hands of anyone but the mother.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The analysis of state laws finds most of the rules that criminalize address sharing do so by considering the practice a form of theft.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• So rather than, than further criminalize their hobby Jackson sought to draw them in.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 May 2022
• Last month during a Pheu Thai rally, youth activists asked if Pheu Thai would amend the law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy.
  — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• And five years after the first deepfakes started to appear, the first laws are just emerging that criminalize the sharing of faked images.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Court was right that some presidential acts can’t be criminalized.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 July 2024
• Last month, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a first-of-its kind measure that would criminalize some drag performances in the state.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
• About 38 states have feticide statutes, which criminalize killing a fetus.
  — Melissa Jeltsen, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022
• In Wisconsin — where an 1849 law that is still on the books would criminalize doctors for performing abortions in most cases — some providers plan to head out of state.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2022
• Pita’s party had vowed to weaken a law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy and shrink the military.
  — Muktita Suhartono, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• Ziegler said efforts to criminalize abortions in the 1860s were led by physicians who knew exceptions to save a mother's life gave them leeway.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2024
• At the top of this year, dozens of bills trying to restrict or criminalize transgender health access were introduced across 11 states.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• Ohio lawmakers are working to criminalize these red flags through a bill that was introduced to the Statehouse in November 2023.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024